The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-10-01
OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN,
Democratic Meeting at Towsontown
Able Speech by Hon. VIM.
Pinkney Whyte.

PInkney Whyte.
The Democratic campaign was opened a
Towsontown, Baltimore county, by a rousint
! meeting on Tuesday night. Ex-Goy. Whyte
Democratic candidate for Attorney General
made an able speech. He said
The people are asked at this election to de-
eide whether Maryland shall be transferred
to the Republican party and included in tn,
column of Republican states in 1888, anc
whether condemnation of President Cleve
lands conservative administration shall be
proclaimed throughout the land on the eve Of
Presidential election. Virginia, West Vir.
ginia and North Carolina specially look with
anxious eyes on your coming contest, and
the country will watch true and tried Dem.
ocratic state in this emergency. Republican
papers are pointing to the probability Of
Maryland swinging from her moorings into
Republican waters. Shall, then, the Cleve.
land administration be repudiated or indorsedi
PRESIDENT cLEvELAND's WORK.
You know that when the Republicans went
into power the United States owned vast
areas of public lands, which by that party
were practically given away to railroad cor
porations, and you know also that an immense
part of these lands, unearned according to the
grants, have been recovered to the people by
this Democratic administration and party.
You know, also, that the President has thrown
the governmental protection around the hum
blest settler ON the public lands, and kept
him from the aggressions of these corpora
tons. You know that the Republican party
left us an inheritance in the shape of war
taxes, which have for years been taking from
the people millions of money not required for
the actual uses of the government, but filling
the treasury with surplus of 100000, 900
annually. Every effort has been made by
the President and his party friends to reduce
these war taxes and to leave this great surplus
in the pockets of the people, where it belongs;
and to-day, but for the Republican party and
few Democratic obstructionists, there would
be little surplus in the treasury, for by abof-
| ishing the tax on tobacco and taking the inn
/ port duties from many articles now enormously
taxed, that surplus would be in circulation
among the people, and we should not have
heard, as you do now, of the tightness in the
money market. With what joy people receive
the announcement from the Treasury Depart
ment that few millions of bonds are to be
purchased at high prices and so much money
released from the treasury, but what would
be their delight if the hundred millions of
surplus were left with the people. The Pres
ident has conducted the public business, for
eign and domestic, upon a high plane of moral
excellence and with republican simplicity.
He has brought together in the most fraternal
accord the two sections of our country, and
smoothed the antagonists which fingered
after the civil war. He went into office op-
posed to the indiscriminate removal of all
public officers, and pledged to practical
civi-service reform. The late Republican
convention has charged that his professions
of civil-service reform were hollow and delu-
sive, although the adherents of that party
crowd the departments at Washington; fill the /
custom houses and postoffices of the country
to such an extent that recent publication in
Massachusetts shows that SO per cent. of the
federal Offices in that state are held by Re-
publicans. He found under the Republican
eivil-serviee reform some 10000 of office |
holders, nearly every one of whom was Re
publican. 1t was necessary for the successful
administration of his Democratic policy that
changes should be made. He has made mis-
takes in some of his appointments, but what
President Of the United States has been in
falible He has been Endorsed as a worthy
public servant, administering his office as |
public trust, by conventions of the Democracy
in Michigan, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Ohio, |
Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Iowa, /
with a warmth of approval gratifying in the |
extreme. and indicating beyond peradventure
that he is to bear the standard of Democracy /
in 1888. And in this state of circumstances
will the Democracy of Maryland abandon the
state to the adherents of Blaine? do not
believe it.
FOR PURE BALLOT.
Coy. Whyte spoke of Senator Sherman's
raid upon the President and ON the purity of
Southern elections, made at the recent Ohio
and said: "The Democratic party
has never been the party Of fraudulent cleo
ions The great mass of its voters repu date
Ill cuob yara and xrha bod ~
ranks commit outrages upon its good name,
t supports and approves every effort for the
detection and punishment of such crimes.
To-day, by its most solemn pledges in a con-
yention made mp of its best citizens-yes, of
he very men and the sons of the men whoiin
1860 rescued this state and the city of Balti-
more from the grasp of the Know Nethings,
md the wholesale disfranchisement by the
Republicans of 1866-it stands obligated to
mend the laws and system of registration by
which frauds upon the ballot box are possible
Great applause.]
REGISTRATION DEFECTS.
The defects of the registration system and t
he imperfections of the election laws no man t
Fill deny. In my message to the Legislature I
t its January session Of 1874 denounced the
resent system Of registration. The election {
ava Of baltimore city were prepared years ago
y sAiliiul lawyers, nut they are Ill adapted to
he present times, and need the most careful 8
evision for the protection of popular suffrage.
VERY honest citizen is in duty obligated to Z
ecure these results, and whether it be the il
aodifed Tilden election law or the Illinois t
Nv, or one better than these, every man who 8
oyes his state and republican institutions. y
annot hesitate to give support to it. IT,
is bound, and |, for one, will >
0 stone unturned, whether in ofSsso,,+;Ii,.,.
to bring that result to pa~- rerIilI1She
e 10 anJ Pturers prces out
duals cannot g ass. Every effort
arties. inish fraud in elections
Highest Cash Pr. The conduct of indi,
~ the RESPONSIBILITIES of